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RE: sweet, I own a 8e again

What a steal, that's practically free. I've been thinking about adding a nitro Eathquake to the lineup. I love it's power to weight ratio.

I think I saw a nitro earthquake recently on ebay for $175ish. But with nitros, its usually best to buy them new. Unless you get it cheap enough that you can buy a new motor for it.

yeah, that's too high for me. I like to buy a basket case when on ebay. Like you said, with nitro I usually assume I'll be replacing the engine, so that has to be a factor in the price. You should see some of the heaps I've seen on there that only had "a few tankfuls run through it". The last project I got on ebay worked out perfect. It was an HPI nitro MT2. Guy said it needed a piston rod. Luckily I assumed it would need more when pricing it. It was a mint roller if you threw the engine away. That's exactly what I wound up doing. He wasn't lying about it needed a rod, just left out the part about the piston and crank. So anyway, I bought it for $102. Did the HPI engine exchange for $65 and replaced the split fuel tank for $12. Used it for almost a year, then painted me up a shiny new body and sold it for $225. Between the body, new rims and tires and everything else I really just broke even, but I got to run it for a year for free.

RE: sweet, I own a 8e again

What a steal, that's practically free. I've been thinking about adding a nitro Eathquake to the lineup. I love it's power to weight ratio.

I think I saw a nitro earthquake recently on ebay for $175ish. But with nitros, its usually best to buy them new. Unless you get it cheap enough that you can buy a new motor for it.

yeah, that's too high for me. I like to buy a basket case when on ebay. Like you said, with nitro I usually assume I'll be replacing the engine, so that has to be a factor in the price. You should see some of the heaps I've seen on there that only had ''a few tankfuls run through it''. The last project I got on ebay worked out perfect. It was an HPI nitro MT2. Guy said it needed a piston rod. Luckily I assumed it would need more when pricing it. It was a mint roller if you threw the engine away. That's exactly what I wound up doing. He wasn't lying about it needed a rod, just left out the part about the piston and crank. So anyway, I bought it for $102. Did the HPI engine exchange for $65 and replaced the split fuel tank for $12. Used it for almost a year, then painted me up a shiny new body and sold it for $225. Between the body, new rims and tires and everything else I really just broke even, but I got to run it for a year for free.

Nice, thats the way to do it!

I used to do that with real cars...
bought a '92 volvo 740 turbo wagon for $450 with a good sticker. Drove it for 1.5 years...only put $300 into it over that time. When the sticker was due to run out again, the fuel pump started to give out. It also needed some exhaust repair for a new sticker. Until that point, it had run great. Leather seats, sunroof, all power stuff and a TURBO!
Sold it for $500. I told the buyer all the stuff that was wrong, was totally honest.

Another 740 I had I owned twice! paid 1200, drove a year, sold for $1000, bought it back 4 months later for $700, sold it the next week for $900.